Manufacturing Business Technology - February 1, 2005

At the heart of most any new product development project is a digital CAD model of the product. Surrounding that all-encompassing model, however, is a hodgepodge of other content—from quality and manufacturing specifications to marketing literature—that needs managing. Emerson Process Management's Fisher Valve division needed to better manage and share design data and ot...

• Applications and Services
• Where next for enterprise applications?
• Siebel CEO plans to "reignite growth"
• Application Maintenance
• Splitting ERP maintenance into components could lower costs
• Complex Production Scenarios
• Is 3D manufacturing for you?
• Management Moves
• New IFS president says focus is key to long-term prosperity

• Business Performance
• Business performance in brief
• Sarbanes-Oxley isn't the half of it
• Integrated Packaging Management
• Vendors aim to put CPG packaging data under tight wraps
• PLM Metrics
• Aras KPIs offer means of measuring impact on product development
• Product Life Cycle Management
• Northrop Grumman CIO talks collaborative CAD and data management
• Supply Chain Execution
• Could optimization be the "next frontier" in warehouse management?

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• So I was wrong about the Segway
• Up Front
• Those halcyon days in a dirty, stinkin' steel mill

• Integration and Infrastructure
• Integration & Infrastructure in brief
• Piggly Wiggly's doing it
• Application Service Providers
• Dot-com powerhouse poised to prosper from the on-demand trend
• Case-In-Point
• Paper supplier calls on Cisco to bridge gap between production machines, facilities
• Data Synchronization
• Avoid RFID failures by starting with clean internal data
• Enterprise Process Management
• BEA showcases new SOA platform in China
• Hosted Software
• Salesforce.com touts custom, vertical solutions without the overhead
• Those Confounding SOAs
• Do Web services equal service-oriented architectures?

• Security/Wireless
• Search for a safe haven
• RFID Standards
• EPC's Gen 2 may be "royalty-free" ... but someone has to pay
• Wireless Design
• Mobile collaboration software unplugs designers from workstations

• Views From the Front
• 2005 Cost Cuts
• Booz Allen says it's better to play nice with your suppliers
• Corporate
• Global Siemens commits local resources to tsunami relief
• Globalization of the IT Industry
• Offshoring and open source will lead to new business models
• Information Technology
• XML not the only game in town
• Market Projections Potpourri
• Semiconductor industry, mobility, and warehouse automation studied
• National Manufacturing Week
• The spotlight is on lean manufacturing and RFID
• Open Arms at OpenWorld
• User conference featured promises—and questions—about Oracle's commitment to PeopleSoft users
• Operations
• UGS buys Tecnomatix
• The Confidence Index
• Pricing in a global market remains top executive concern
• The Green Supply Network
• "Lean and Clean" auto industry pilot expands to other verticals
• World-Class Manufacturing
• Frost & Sullivan's Excellence Awards showcase India's capabilities